Liv Penrose Punnett

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Olivia (Liv) Penrose Punnett

Lecturer in Fine Art

Summary

Liv Penrose Punnett is a curator, consultant, and M4C and AHRC Researcher at Nottingham Contemporary Gallery. Drawn to alternative ways of knowing, Liv uses contemporary art to unpick, question, and re-imagine and has curated numerous Arts Council supported exhibitions and events, working with artists such as Susan Hiller, Dorothy Cross, Feral Practice, and Tai Shani. Her artistic practice includes printmaking, installation, and projection. 

As Director at Haarlem Artspace, a rural contemporary studio and gallery in Derbyshire, Liv leads experimental cultural programmes focused on spiritual ecology and intersectional environmentalism.

Clients and employers include The National Trust, Artes Mundi Wales, New Art Exchange Nottingham, and Arusha Gallery. Liv holds an Arts and Humanities Research Council Award, the SIA Gallery Award and the Jonathan Ruffer Curatorial Award, and her publications are held in The Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, The Ruskin Archive, and the Tate Library and Archive.

Teaching

College of Social Sciences and Arts

Subject area 

Fine Art

Courses taught

Fine Art

Modules taught

Art Practice

Research

A Poetical Science: Exploring Art, Feminism and Technology through Contemporary Curatorial Practice

Using curation as a matrix and methodology, this project explores how Womxn in art and technology use relational ethics and intuition to produce new knowledge. Against the separation of 'Techne and Magic' (Campagna, F., 2018) and advocating for a more holistic, emotional, intuitive, and pluralised practice 'extending beyond literal technological mechanics' (Russell, L 2020), a Poetical Science aims to critically engage with emerging narratives in art, feminism, and technology; investigating the marginalisation of womxn's contributions to show the vital role of 'magic' in the construction of technological realities (Federici, S., 2020).

 

 

Projects

  • A Poetical Science: Exploring Art, Feminism and Technology through Contemporary Curatorial Practice
  • Wales Venice 10 Fellowship and Commission Programme with Artes Mundi & Arts Council Wales
  • A Strange Kind of Knowing, Arusha Gallery London, and Haarlem Artspace Wirksworth.
  • Pleasure Ground Residency Ama Josephine Budge, Adam Moore & Verity Birt, Ingestre Orangery
  • re:rural-four contemporary artists un-learn and re-imagine the rural, Annalee Davis, Feral Practice, Deirdre O’Mahony, Pauline Woolley. Haarlem Artspace.
  • Fieldwork, Fourthland, Tazelaar Stevenson, Michael Page, David Steans, speakers Glennie Kindred, Helen Jukes, Mary Wiltshire, Dr Chris Thornhill, Penny Newell. Haarlem Artspace.
  • Something Unusual On Cicchetti Community Event, curated by Lera Berest, Liv Punnett & Daniela Hediger. Venice Biennial, Dorsoduro, 943, 30123 Venezia VE, Italy
  • Collectivism Residency Haarlem Artspace Derbyshire.
  • Where Rock & Hard Place Meet, Victoria Lucas, Haarlem Artspace, Wirksworth Festival.
  • Internal Nebular, Dorothy Cross, Alastair Mackie and Liz Orton. Haarlem Artspace Exhibition (Guardian Guide Editors Pick 15/09/2017).Print and Works on Paper, Bronwen Sleigh, Joan Ainley, Beth Bowie and Geoff Diego Litherland. Mercia Wirksworth

    Member of The Climate History Network / Member of the Higher Education Academy / Member of The New Centre for Research & Practice / Member Culture Action Europe

Press, publications and conferences

•   Ellen Wilkinson, 27/01/2022, Now Showing: This month’s must-see exhibitions and events, a-n The Artists Information Company, https://www.a-n.co.uk/news/now-showing-this-months-must-see-exhibitions-and-events-2/
•   Alexander Clarke, 17/12/21 Primordial Whispers at Arusha Gallery, Trebuchet Magazine, https://bit.ly/3uTz7no
•   Anna Souter, 28/09/2020 RE: RURAL, The learned Pig Magazine, https://bit.ly/3rVSkms
•   Jonathan Jones, 2019/09/2020, Guardian Review for re-rural https://bit.ly/3I04HUk
•   Alice Fisher, 19/09/2020, Wild plants of Barbados illustrated on plantation ledgers – in pictures, The Observer Magazine, https://bit.ly/3JyTevj
•   Sara Jaspan, 26/02/2018 Exploring PAPER with Olivia Punnett, The Fourdrinier, https://bit.ly/3LIsj2e

Collaborators and sponsors

  • AHRC-funded Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Partnership
  • Arts and Humanities Research Council 
  • Nottingham Contemporary Gallery
  • Nottingham Trent University

 

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